Six Arizona cities have found themselves near the top of a nationally compiled list of highest combined state and municipal sales taxes.
The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation found that Phoenix and four of its suburbs alone take five of the top 25 spots, with Glendale at No.8 with a 9.6 percent, Phoenix 12th at 9.4 percent, Mesa 19th at 9.15 percent, Scottsdale 18th at 9.05 percent, and Chandler and Gilbert tied for 23rd at 8.9 percent.
The study encompaased 107 meotr areas with a requirement that they be composed of 200,000 or more people.
Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, took the number one and two spots, with combined rates of around 10 percent. Anchorage, Alaska, and Portland, Oregon, were the only two cities that met the population requirement but did not charge a local or state government sales tax.
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